Lord Inchcape, chairman of the City of London appeal, escorts the Lord Mayor of London, Col Sir Ronald Gardner-Thorpe, GBE ID, up the beautiful staircase of the Fishmongers' Hall to the banquetting hall. With them (centre front) is John... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 2ND. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 5.17 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel was in distress, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 6 P.M. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The lifeboat...
3rd| No- vember. An unsuccessful searcli was made for a coble which had beetf lost together with her crew of two.—• Rewards, £10 14s. 6d. ?'.
Scene from the Boxing Day life-boat ball on Granada Television's 'Coronation Street'. On the left, Doris Speed who plays Annie Walker; on the right, David Davies.. - View image in PDF
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Harkt Harkl 'tis the boom of a distant gun, And the stoutest heart doth quail, For there's death maybe in the raging sea To him who would dare the gale.
But the wind may shriek till it crack each cheek, And the sea...
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MAY 9 T H . - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. The S.S. Tartar, of Sligo, had stopped off Dunmore for examination.
She had not dropped anchor, but drifted to the S.W. round the headland. She was kept under observation, and was...
Another vessel—the schooner Pride of the West, of Penzance—on the llth March, also went ashore on the North-West Spit, while the wind was blowing strong from the N.E. The life-boat and steamer went to the assistance of the crew, on their...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.30 A.M. on the 15th January the harbour entrance became very dangerous, owing to the bad races of sea which were running in. Danger signals were hoisted and the pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie...
Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Polruan in- formed the honorary secretary that the coastguard at Charlestown had gone to- help a young woman who had been cut off by the tide about...
Lerwick's first lifeboat, the 51ft Barnett Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, leaving harbour in rough weather.. - View image in PDF
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